Terrence Malick

Director Terrence Malick was one of the most meticulous, original and enigmatic American filmmakers to emerge in the vaunted 1970s. Unlike other equally gifted directors who came of age during that ti...
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Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly vs. James Franco and Seth Rogen: Which Friendship Do You Prefer?

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Some pairs are just meant to be onscreen together, whether its Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers or Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. They have a connection and chemistry that is hard to quantify and even harder to manufacture. As far as today's stars go, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly have proved that they have that kind of connection when they're working together. So have Seth Rogen and James Franco. With each duo in the early stages of new big screen projects, we ask fans: Which of the bro-tastic pairings are you most looking forward to see reunited?
Ferrell and Reilly
It's not exactly the most logical fit. Ferrell comes from the Saturday Night Live school of goofy man-child characters and Reilly was once considered an up-and-coming dramatic actor working with directors like Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Terrence Malick. Then Reilly became Ferrell's dimwitted sidekick in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and soon the two were doing red carpet bits in character. They reteamed for Step Brothers, a film that gave new meaning to the term "arrested development" and established Ferrell and Reilly as a powerhouse comedy duo. Since then they've appeared in Funny or Die shorts together and Reilly made a cameo in last year's Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. They each continue to do a full slate of work on their own — Reilly in particular stays extremely busy — making it clear that when they work together it's because they want to. The pair is set to reteam with director Adam McKay, Ferrell's frequent collaborator and Step Brothers director, on a comedy called Border Guards about two guys that end up on the wrong side of the Mexican border while trying to protect the United States from illegal immigrants.
Rogen and Franco
As opposed to Ferrell and Reilly, who had plenty of success individually prior to working together, Rogen and Franco started out working with one another in Judd Apatow's critically TV cult classic Freaks and Geeks. The pair shared screentime and exemplary chemistry with Jason Segel, Busy Philipps, and Linda Cardellini as the titular "freaks." While Franco went off and found stardom in the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movies, Rogen hung around with Apatow long enough to find a fan base of his own after films like The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up. Around the same time that Ferrell and Reilly did Step Brothers, Franco and Rogen reteamed for Pineapple Express. Then there was last year's This Is the End, where Rogen and Franco played amplified versions of themselves. Since then, they've taken to the net to spoof Kanye West's "Bound 2" video as well as Vogue's photo shoot with Kim Kardashian, and Franco popped in on Rogen's recent hosting turn on Saturday Night Live. The affection that they have for each other shows… sometimes more than you could even expect, such as the over-the-top (and shirtless) displays of love in the Bound video. Rogen and Franco, through their production companies, are planning to produce a film version of the book The Disaster Artist about the making of the notoriously bad cult movie The Room.
Perhaps someday Ferrell, Reilly, Franco and Rogen will all make a movie together — and considering Ferrell's and Rogen's proclivity for cramming famous people into their projects that isn't too far-fetched — but for now we're making you choose. So, who's it going to be? Vote below to tell us which duo — Ferrell and Reilly or Franco and Rogen — you can't wait to see more comedy gold from.
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If you watched the pilot episode of Alfonso Cuarón's highly anticipated new series Believe, you might be thinking that filmmakers should stick to the big screen. Forever. But the Gravity director still has time to convince people that Believe isn't the worst show ever. There's something exciting about a brilliant filmmaker taking on a television series, so here are five fantasy projects from some amazing directors who should definitely come to the small screen.
Terrence Malick
The day that Terrence Malick comes to the Sundance Channel with a television series developed from his The New World script will be a great day for us all. A mini-series about Pocahontas and/or her progeny? Yes, please.
Kathryn Bigelow
Back in 2010 her Broadway-inspired show The Miraculous Year was rejected by HBO, but it's time for Bigelow to get back out there. Considering the nature of many of her films (Zero Dark Thirty, Hurt Locker), people might be surprised to know that she's also an accomplished painter. It'd be great to see her team back up with Jessica Chastain for some kind of artsy period piece set in the 70s, when she was studying art with some of the best.
Tim Story
Now that he and Kevin Hart are proven box-office gold (Think Like a Man, Ride Along), this could be a great time for the duo to bring it to the small screen. Throw in a little Tracy Morgan (Story also produced First Sunday) and voila! Best show ever.
Guillaume Canet
This year he released his first English-language film (Blood Ties) and we can only imagine what a series (perhaps another crime drama) directed by him and starring him would look like (it'd probably look awesome... and really hot). Oh, and obviously his flawless significant other and frequent collaborator Marion Cotillard would be on board.
Miranda July
It's been forever since Me and You and Everyone We Know, but those two little boys deserve their own spinoff series. And the world is just a better place when July is creating things.
Wes Anderson
There's no real pitch here. It's just that some of us want to watch something, anything, by Wes Anderson every single week for the rest of our lives. Starring Bill Murray and Gene Hackman as two patriarchs who live next door to each other? Jason Schwartzman doing odd-jobs? Whatever. Who cares about the plot? It would be amazing!
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Last year alone, films like Blue Jasmine, 12 Years a Slave and Philomena were driven by the brilliant transformations of actresses like Cate Blanchett, Lupita Nyong'o, and Judi Dench. And as we celebrate Women's History Month (looking forward to more exciting performances from these and other great actresses), let's take a look back at just a few of the many, many life changing performances in some of the best biopics and period pieces from recent years.
Q'orianka Kilcher, The New World
You thought you knew the story of Pocahontas until director Terrence Malick introduced us to a whole new world. Kilcher's performance was so awe-inspring it practically re-told and re-wrote history itself.
Kirsten Dunst, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Julia Stiles, Ginnifer Goodwin, Julia Roberts, Mona Lisa Smile
Yes. Pretty much every actress you love is in this movie. Set in the 1950s, this amazing film tells the story of a group of Wellesley students who get their lives shaken up when Julia Roberts shows up as their free-thinking art professor.
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
When Cotillard won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Lead Role for her role as beloved French singer Edith Piaf, nobody in the world cried foul. Because there aren't enough awards in the world for what she did in La Vie en Rose. A stunning, haunting, fitting tribute from one French star to another.
Viola Davis &amp; Octavia Spencer, The Help
Spencer took home the Academy Award in 2012 for her portrayal of Minny Jackson, a black maid working for a particularly cruel white woman in the '60s, and costar Davis was nominated. As far as the clip above, one YouTuber describes it as "The most satisfying scene in cinematic history." We're inclined to agree.
Cate Blanchett, The Aviator
Blanchett as Katherine Hepburn? Damn near flawless.
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth
But Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth? EVERYTHING!
Angela Bassett, What's Love Got to Do with It
No offense to Tina Turner, but Angela Bassett was the best Tina Turner of all time.
Laura Linney, Kinsey
It may have been Liam Neeson's flick, but Linney played the wife of the famed scientist and, for many of us, absolutely stole the show.
Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn
If you've somehow managed to go through life not being in love with Michelle Williams, then you clearly have not seen My Week with Marilyn. Do yourself a favor and make it happen. NOW!
Jennifer Lopez, Selena
If you can make it through J Lo's performance of Selena Quintanilla's life and work without crying, you are a martian robot lacking the full understanding of Selena Quintanilla.
Kate Winslet, The Reader
Granted there are other Kate Winslet movies to choose from. But when you really get down to it... no. No, there aren't.
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The recent Academy Awards highlighted the fact that 2013 was a big year for black cinema. And many of the year's best films were inspired by written works, like the memoirs of Solomon Northup (12 Years a Slave) and A Butler Well Served by This Election by Wil Haygood (Lee Daniels' The Butler). In hopes of more powerful stories about the black experience making their way to theaters, here are three works of literature we'd love to see on the big screen.
Sula
Toni Morrison's novel about two girls, Sula and Nel — one slightly stranger than the other (although according to some interpretations, the characters are one in the same) — Sula would need little tampering with to be an exciting cinematic production. Powerful descriptions of death by fires and floods, affairs, and friendships all make this one unforgettable story. Plus, Sula's unique character (this bizarre and beautiful woman suffering and/or thriving from a severe lack of ego) is the sort we don't usually see onscreen. It'd be brilliant to seen an actress like Lupita Nyong'o take on such a roll, or perhaps Yaya Alafia, who recently gave a great performance in The Butler.
Giovanni's Room
For many of us, James Baldwin's second novel is, quite simply, one of the greatest literary achievements of all time. And for that reason, this tragic story of an American man in Paris, experiencing his first homosexual relationship while his girlfriend is off in Spain, is too perfect to be brought to film. But with the right director (Terrence Malick would offer an interesting interpretation, Martin Scorsese might bring it alive in an exciting way, and Steve McQueen could surely do something brilliant with it), it could easily become (another) unforgettable work of art.
Thomas and Beulah
Rita Dove's collection of poetry tells a beautiful, often haunting story based on the lives of the poet's grandparents. The collection won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and the images of these two characters — as a couple in courtship, then as husband and wife, and Beulah as a housewife who "dreams the baby's so small she keeps/misplacing it," as a woman who fights wolves — are unforgettable. Although it's another work that many literature lovers would probably resent seeing as an adaptation, those of us who love the literary world as much as the cinematic can envision Thomas and Beulah as a great period piece or a small, indie production.
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Every once in a while an up-and-coming actress catches your eye, and you can’t help but wonder who she is and where she came from. When that happens, it’s a good idea to start doing some research before she sweeps in under the radar and takes over the world (à la little Chloë Grace Moretz). The trailer for the new romantic comedy That Awkward Moment was recently released, and along with a few familiar faces (Zac Efron, Michael B. Jordan) the film stars Imogen Poots, a young British beauty who has some exciting new projects in the works.
First of all — gotta love that name, right? Imogen Poots sounds like she was destined to live a life of awesomeness and -- considering the actors that she’s been working with -- all that awesomeness is definitely unfolding for her. It looks like 2014 is going to be an exciting year for the 24-year-old who may be best known right now for her role in the 2007 zombie film 28 Weeks Later. But we suspect that within a year she’ll be far more recognizable; she’s starring alongside Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson in Squirrels To The Nuts (directed by Oscar-nominee Peter Bogdanovich), and she has joined the star-studded cast of Terrence Malick’s highly-anticipated Knight Of Cups. Even though Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Joe Manganiello and Cate Blanchett will cast some mighty strong shadows, we’re looking forward to seeing Poots shine on screen.
Most recently the actress nabbed the lead for Todd Field’s Beautiful Ruins, an adaptation of the bestselling novel. Todd Field is the same guy who brought us Little Children back in 2006 (one of Kate Winslet’s best movies), so it’s safe to say we can get really excited about this film and this new leading lady. Remember the name folks: Imogen Poots, headed for a 2014 takeover.
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Cate Blanchett is, without a doubt, one of the great actors of our time. She's been delivering powerful performances for the past 20 years, with her roles in films like The Aviator, Elizabeth, The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button just a few on a long list of great works. We were so excited to learn that the amazing Aussie talent is getting ready to go behind the camera, as she'll be making her directorial debut with an adaptation of the bestselling novel The Dinner. Here are a few reasons we're expecting very big things from this project.
It’s Technically Not Her First Time Directing
Theatre-heads know this better than the rest of us, but Blanchett has been in the director's seat before. Her husband (playwright and screenwriter Andrew Upton) runs the Sydney Theatre Company, and Blanchett has directed David Harrower’s Blackbird and Joan Didion’s Pulitzer Prize-finalist memoir The Year Of Magical Thinking. Obviously, directing for the big screen will be different from directing for the stage, but we expect that Blanchett will make a strong transition.
The Novel Was A Huge Deal
The Dinner is a Dutch novel by Herman Koch. It was a European sensation, an international best seller (making the New York Times bestseller list), and the plot sounds like it was just asking to be adapted into a film. The psychologoical thriller tells the story of parents who must meet for dinner and deal with the ramifications of a horrific crime committed by their sons; it's been described as "the European Gone Girl." We can't wait to see how Blanchett brings such a tale to life.
The Oren Moverman Factor
One of the most exciting things about the project is that Blanchett is teaming up with the Oscar-nominated writer Oren Moverman. Moverman is adapting the novel for the screen, and since he was partly responsible for the critically-acclaimed 2009 film The Messenger, we think this could make for a dream collaboration.
Her Red Carpet Sensibility
This may sounds strange, but based on Cate Blanchett's red carpet stylings, we think she is going to make a fantastic film. Cinematography is everything, and Blanchett's recent, show-stopping looks (like this one) have us convinced that she knows how to make artistic magic happen in more ways than one.
She's Learned From The Best
Right now Blanchett is starring in Blue Jasmine, which is on its way to being Woody Allen's highest-grossing film to date. And Allen is just one of the many great directors Blanchett has worked with; Martin Scorsese, Peter Jackson, David Fincher, and Terrence Malick are just a handful of the filmmakers we think Blanchett will be drawing on when she gets behind the camera. If these guys have any influence on her debut, the possibilities are endless.
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The Star Wars origin story films are a go, whether we're on board or not. So we might as well keep positive and hope for the best. We don't know for sure which Lucasfilm characters we'll see get individual treatment — beyond rumors about Han Solo, Boba Fett, and Yoda — but we can muster up a list of which denizens of that Galaxy Far, Far away would be most compelling. And, just to conflate our Star Wars nerd-dom with our general film industry nerd-dom, we can toss in a list of directors we'd like to see take on these projects. How likely are any of these creations we've come up with? Not at all. But this is a land for dreaming. Behold the Star Wars origin story movies we'd very much love to see...
Han SoloGreedo Shooter, a twisted account of the pilot's young days of skirting the law and living it up. Written and directed by Harmony Korine.
Boba FettThe Man with No Face, a vivid, heavy dramatic thriller. Written by Luc Besson and directed by Kathryn Bigelow.
YodaMaster, a weighty drama about the dark depths to which a Jedi's mind can plunge. Written and directed by Werner Herzog.
Princess LeiaThe Princess' Revolution, a politically-charged drama about ascending from royalty to righteousness. Written by Emma Thompson and directed by Joe Wright.
ChewbaccaThe Growl of Man, a wordless epic about the Wookiee's journeys through the forests of Kashyyyk. Written and directed by Terrence Malick.
C-3POJust the Droid You're Looking For!, a verbose comedy about one droid's neurotic self-sabotage. Written and directed by Woody Allen.
R2-D2(beep!), a charming Pixar film about a whistling robot who changes lives everywhere he goes. Written and directed by Brad Bird.
Jabba the HuttPorcelain Palace, a dark, perverse nightmare about the goings-on in a crime lord's den of sex and violence. Written and directed by David Lynch.
Lando CalrissianHead in the Clouds, a sardonic farce about the Cloud City kingpin's moral decay. Written by Diablo Cody and directed by Jason Reitman.
Admiral AckbarCalamari, a sweeping exploration of the waterlogged planet of Mon Calamari. Written and directed by James Cameron.
Figrin D'an and the Modal NodesA Kloo Horn Melody, a pithy mockumentary about the longstanding rivalry of the Mos Eisley Cantina's house musicians with the Max Rebo Band. Written and directed by David Guest.
Jar Jar BinksGungan Man, a disturbing mission to latch onto one of the universe's most vile, deplorable creatures. Written and directed by David Cronenberg.
Uncle Owen and Aunt BeruMidtown Tatooine, a dry dramedy about a loveless pair's decision to raise their ungrateful young nephew. Written and directed by Wes Anderson.
Grand Moff TarkinAbandon Ship, a wily, haunting adventure about a crew of Stormtroopers who want out of their dead-end business. Written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar.
Biggs Darklighter, Wedge Antilles, and Jek Tono PorkinsFly, a dreamy navel-gazer about three Academy students who'd rather soar through space than think about the future. Written and directed by Richard Linklater.
Ponda Baba and Dr. Cornelius EvazanWe Don't Like You, a subversive buddy crook comedy about two wanted men who only love each other. Written and directed by Edgar Wright.
Mon MothmaCenter of the Universe, a political satire about the deafening bureaucracy behind the curtains of the Galactic Republic. Written and directed by Armando Iannucci.
Mace WinduThe Mighty Purple, a bloody exploitation film about a no-mercy warrior who takes justice into his own hands. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
General GrievousSo I'm a Robot Now, a screwball comedy about a man-turned-cyborg who must adjust to life in his new form. Written and directed by David Wain.
WicketFluff, a wondrous ballad about a delightful creature trying to find beauty in times of fear. Written by James Schamus and directed by Ang Lee.
What else can you come up with: a John Waters film about Bib Fortuna? A slow-burning Coen Bros drama about a young Qui Gon? Paul Thomas Anderson's take on pod racing? We're intrigued by all and any ideas. Sound off!
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Bridesmaids is arguably not only one of the most successful comedies of the last decade — grossing $288 million worldwide — but one of the most artistically satisfying as well. That's why Kristen Wiig's first solo vehicle snce, Girl Most Likely, released this weekend in only 353 theaters and subject to atrocious reviews, is such a shock. In fact, we'd argue that it joins the following list of stinkers as among the worst follow-ups ever made. These are 10 other films that turned gold into s**t.
1. The Last Movie (1971)
Dennis Hopper followed up his counter-culture smash Easy Rider, a generation-defining road movie for the ages, with this movie about a Hollywood stunt coordinator working on a Western in Peru who joins a Native American community after one of his production colleagues is killed. Told via a non-linear chronology, complete with heavy use of jump cuts, The Last Movie is an ambitious study in the nebulous divide between fiction and reality...but it totally confused its 1971 audience and reeks of self-indulgence. That's why it's never even been released on DVD.
2. Godzilla (1998)
Roland Emmerich made a perfect summer movie in 1996 with Independence Day. So he hoped to enshrine his status as a destroyer of worlds with a remake of the most defining entry in the urban destruction porn genre: Godzilla. What we got was Michael Lerner playing Mayor Ebert, a mocking sendup of Roger Ebert, and two hours of Matthew Broderick frantically avoiding being crushed by the lizard's giant feet.
3. Southland Tales (2006)
Donnie Darko was an oddity, albeit an intriguing and eventually successful one for director Richard Kelly in 2002. But his follow-up replaced "odd" with "bats**t crazy," totally bombing — even if, like other quasi-rehabilitated failures before it, such as Heaven's Gate, it has its defenders.
4. Righteous Kill (2008)
For Righteous Kill, the 13-years-in-the-making reteaming of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino after 1995's Heat, they traded Michael Mann and Jon Voight for Jon Avnet and 50 Cent. That pretty much says it all.
5. Quantum of Solace (2008)
Casino Royale was the best Bond movie in years. It washed away the decadent CGI taint of Die Another Day and introduced a 007 more in keeping with Ian Fleming's original vision. But its follow-up Quantum of Solace was an incoherent mess harmed by a script that languished during the 2007 writers' strike.
6. Jennifer's Body (2009)
People wanted to see Diablo Cody put words like "this is one doodle that can't be undid, home skillet" in Rainn Wilson's mouth in Juno, not put Megan Fox at the center of an air-quotey horror movie.
7. Cars 2 (2011)
Now the original Cars (2006) has its detractors for sure, but even its biggest naysayers wouldn't suggest that it interrupted Pixar's uncanny 1995-2010 winning streak. That movie would be Cars 2, which cast its titular autos in a ridiculous Japan-set spy caper. The studio hasn't recovered since, following up that disappointment with even more disappointing flicks like Brave and Monsters University.
8. To the Wonder (2013)
Terrence Malick drew near-universal praise for his transcendent tone poem The Tree of Life in 2011. But though its follow-up shares much in common with The Tree of Life — Hollywood actors reduced to mythic abstractions, breathy voiceover, twirling — To the Wonder felt like a clichéd regurgitation
9. The Internship (2013)
Wedding Crashers was a raunchy, go-for-broke bromance extravaganza. But eight years and the impulse toward whitewashing Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn down to a safe PG-13 sensibility in their reteaming as fortysomething Google interns were not kind.
10. Only God Forgives (2013)
As a stuntdriver turned getaway man cruising the streets of L.A., Ryan Gosling was hypnotically watchable in Drive. Needless to say, he is less so as a vengeful drug dealer in Bangkok in Only God Forgives.
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Focus, which has had the musical chairs of A-list casting, looks like they finally have one star to stay put: Will Smith. According to Variety, Smith is in final talks to star in the film which follows "an inexperienced female con artist who teams up with a more seasoned male one." Hollywood.com reached out to Smith's rep for a statement regarding the casting news, but they could not immediately be reached.
Smith would, naturally, play the latter in a role that was originally optioned to fellow Hollywood heavy hitters like Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, and Ben Affleck. In fact, Affleck was close to taking on the part in the action drama, but prior commitments got in the way. The same went for Gosling, actually, who Focus' writers and directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa wanted to re-team with his Crazy, Stupid, Love co-star Emma Stone. (Unfortunately, Gangster Squad beat them to the punch on that).
While it's uncertain if Stone is still being considered for the now Gosling-less project, Kristen Stewart had been attached to the project when Affleck was still in the running. But the Twilight star felt that the age gap between her and Affleck was too big and dropped out. There's no word in the Variety report about which actresses are being courted now that Smith will likely sign on for Focus.
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First released film where he received screenplay credit, "Pocket Money"

Directed second feature, "Days of Heaven" (film spent two years in post-production)

First produced screenplay, "Deadhead Miles" (film was shelved until 1982 release)

Did uncredited work on the screenplay for "Drive, He Said"

Taught philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Directed fifth feature, "The Tree of Life," which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival

Feature producing and directing debut, "Badlands"; also scripted and acted in a bit part

Moved to Paris for several years

Wrote and directed first film in twenty years, "The Thin Red Line"

Reportedly worked on script for "Dirty Harry"

Published a translation of Martin Heidegger’s The Essence of Reasons

Worked as journalist in the mid-1960s; writings published in Newsweek, Time and The New Yorker

Directed the the pre-colonial epic "The New World," a revisionist take on the story of Pocahontas and John Smith

Co-wrote script for "The Gravy Train" with Bill Kerr (credited under the pseudonym David Whitney)

Directed his thesis film "Lanton Mills"

Summary

Director Terrence Malick was one of the most meticulous, original and enigmatic American filmmakers to emerge in the vaunted 1970s. Unlike other equally gifted directors who came of age during that time like Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg, Malick's source of inspiration came from his rural, rather than urban, roots, which were often displayed with lush photography and deeply resonant voiceovers that waxed philosophical about humanity's place in nature. But after directing two excellent and widely revered films, "Badlands" (1973) and "Days of Heaven" (1978), Malick suddenly disappeared, going into self-imposed exile at a time when he was at the height of his command. Rumors abounded as to his whereabouts, until it finally became clear that he took up residence in Paris and proceeded to live in semi-seclusion, emerging only for uncredited rewrite work on several films. Twenty years had passed by the time he returned to filmmaking with the poignant antiwar masterpiece, "The Thin Red Line" (1998), and lyrical epics like "The New World" (2005) and "The Tree of Life" (2011), all of which proved to doubtful critics that Malick was still a master filmmaker at the top of his game.

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Role

Comments

Michie Gleason

Companion

Together in the late 1970s

Jill Jakes

Wife

Emil Malick

Father

Worked for Phillips Petroleum

Irene Malick

Mother

Chris Malick

Brother

Was badly burned in a car accident, that took his wife's life

Larry Malick

Brother

Was studying guitar in Spain, when he reportedly broke his hands in frustration with his progress; later committed suicide

Michele Morette

Wife

Alexandra Wallace

Wife

Credited with continuity on Malick's "The Thin Red Line" (1998)

Todd Wallace

Step-Son

Had a bit part in "The Thin Red Line" (1998); mother, Alexandra Wallace

Will Wallace

Step-Son

Had a bit part in "The Thin Red Line" (1998); mother, Alexandra Wallace

Education

Name

Center For Advanced Film Studies, American Film Institute

Magdalen College, Oxford University

Harvard University

AFI Conservatory

St Stephen's Episcopal School

Notes

The place of his birth is listed as Waco, Texas or Ottawa, Illinois depending on the source.